[oe] Recent wordpress attacks and md5sum

[Holger Freyther]

Am 04.03.2007 um 18:53 schrieb Erik Hovland:

> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:54:08PM +0100, Holger Freyther wrote:
>> PPS: Yeah md5 is cracked, so is the sha family, any other options?
>
> Use sha256sum? NIST strongly encourages users to switch to sha-256 now
> until they finish their hash competition.
>
> sha256sum does come with modern versions of coreutils. SHA-256 should
> not be compromised yet...

Hi Erik,

not being a crypto expert I heard complains of inbreed of the whole  
sha family. But I think sha256 is totally fine for our purpose (only  
the sums are so long...)

h.